“Home wasn’t a place, like this apartment or the ships above. It was who you were with, and how you worked it out together.”
― Dawn Arrives
― Dawn Arrives
“I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.”
― Captain Blood
― Captain Blood
“So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“The moaning and groaning, The sighing and sobbing, Are quieted now, With that horrible throbbing At heart:—ah, that horrible, Horrible throbbing! The sickness—the nausea— The pitiless pain— Have ceased, with the fever That maddened my brain— With the fever called "Living" That burned in my brain.”
― Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works
― Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works
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